Improvement in floors for stalls



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ZEBULON G. GARLIC/K, OF OTSEGO, NEW YORK.

-IMPROVEMENT IN FLOORS FOR STALLS.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,283, dated July 21, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZEBULoN G. GARLIGK, ot the city and county of Otsego, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu the Construction of Floors for Horse and Cattle Stalls; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot the same, ret'erence being had to the accompanying drawing, making part ot' this specitication, in which my invention is represented by a perspective view.

The nature of my invention consists in providing animal-stalls with a secondary tloor, constructed, in part, of a grate which allows a ltree escape ot' urine, and which is hinged at one end so that it can be turned up into a vertical position to admit ot' the ready removal of any accumulation of manure beneath it and on the stable-floor, whereby the animalis kept clean, dry, and comfortable, as will be hereinafter fully explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, l will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I trst lay some narrow pieces ot' wood, A, acrors the stall and attach them by nails or otherwise to the iioor B. Upon these pieces I lay a secondary floor, O, which is constructed ot' plank, the same as the lower iioor, except a portion Yat the foot or entrance of the stall, which portion I construct in the form of a grate by narrowpieces or bars ot' wood of aboutthree inches in width by two inches in thickness and about four t'eet in length, with small blocks of wood of about three inches square by halt' an inch in thickness interposed between them at each end, and the whole secured together by two bolts, one passing through each end of the grate. The blocks between the bars at each end leave the grate suiticiently open to allow the urine to pass oft readily without inconveniencing the animal in standing or lying down. It is also sufticiently close to keep such bedding as is usually provided for horses and cattle from passing through it onto the stall-Hoor proper. rIhe grate is attached at one end to the tixed portion ofthe secondarytioor by hinges, which admit of its being turned back into the position shown by red lines in the drawing, to allow whatever may have accumula-ted between it and the main door of the stall to be removed.

rIhe above-described invention is equally applicable to any kind ot' animal-stall, requiring no change in the construction to adapt it to any stall, exceptit may be in the dimensions.

The expense ot' furnishing a stall with the improvementis merely nominal,compared with the great saving it effects in the health of the animal by keeping him dry, to say nothing of the saving effected in the time and labor required to clean him.

Besides the above, many other obvious advantages result from the use ot' my invention, which it is not considered necessary here to particularize.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Providing animal-stall with a secondary door, formed in part of a movable grate, Which is constructed ot longitudinal bars, secured together at each end with interstices between them, and attached to the other part of the door by hinges, so as to operate in the manner and for the purposes specified.

ZEBULON G. GARLIOK.

Vitnesses:

S. WrLsoN CHENEY, FAY E. TAYLOR. 

